Overlawyered is consistently funny, analytically sharp, and always careful to avoid confusing the personal qualities of those unfortunate enough to be featured with their legal or political mistakes. From memory, it's the second legal blog I started reading daily, soon after I started checking this site whenever I had a free minute at the PC.

It's always been a blog, even though "blog" wasn't a common term in the days of Pets.com. The first post was indeed ten years ago today.

Olson's modest. Calling it the first legal blog doesn't do it as much justice as pointing out that apart from kottke.org, the clearly established champion, it's one of the oldest continually published blogs, period.

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